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Garry Laurence to depart Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... May 2016 appointment compared to index's 11.64%. Perpetual said it decided to change the managers after an extensive review of its global equities capability. "Perpetual yesterday announced changes to our Global Equities team and strategy. Following ...

Perpetual slashes fees

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... Investments general manager global distribution Adam Quaife said the management fee reduction comes following a comprehensive review of its fixed income funds. "We are committed to keeping our fees competitive, while at the same time, remaining focussed ...

ASIC suspends OTC derivatives issuer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... positions will be taken. Union Standard held AFS license 302792 and may apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of the decision.

Kapstream restructures investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... investment vehicle Illyria, had his leadership role made redundant after a team review. "Recently the firm has undertaken a review of team resourcing and configuration. As a result we have elected to revert to a simpler, flatter structure across our ...

First State to dump $40m of thermal coal holdings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... the next three years, as well as the introduction of a new low-carbon index. The fund will also commit to an ongoing review of its energy portfolio mix, to mitigate the potential for stranded assets. It will also set targets, fund-wide, for investments ...

BT un-aligns group insurance, awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... designed to help BT cover the costs of government reforms impacting super funds. On 4 May 2020, Westpac announced a review of its business units - determining that several business units lacked sufficient scale. One of those units was its life insurance ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... collections on payroll ($26 billion in 2018-19) or stamp duties ($19 billion in 2018-19), it said. Similarly, the NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations has made the case for increasing the base or main GST rate. In its draft report Supporting the ...

Model portfolio growth up 70%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... increasing by 44% last year. The report said managed accounts hold an aggregate $65 billion as at the end of March 2020. A review of nearly 100 separately managed account (SMA) platforms revealed there are 1003 discrete model portfolios offered by 193 ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report says there is a strong case for reforming GST and reducing the nation's reliance ...

Rest names chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... portfolios operations. This is the first time the fund has had an investment lead for the whole fund and follows a lengthy review of its investment and governance structures. Rest first made public its intention to hire an investments chief in August ...